[^1]: The suffix "-GPT" was, of course, mandatory for any LLM-wrapping software in 2023. ![[ILL Graphic - Resized.png]] **J. Hume** (2023). [A Large Language Model-Infused Platform for Blending Spaced Repetition and Immersion in Mandarin Vocabulary Acquisition.](https://conference.pixel-online.net/files/ict4ll/ed0017/FP/9480-ICT6929-FP-ICT4LL17.pdf) In <em style="color: inherit !important;">Proceedings of the 17th Edition of the Innovation in Language Learning Conference.</em> Filodiritto Editore. ![[gif2?.gif]] Perhaps the two terms that reprise most in languaphilic circles are **immersion** and **spaced repetition**. Both are essential, but conventional methods for combining them are lossy. The explosion of `GPT-3.5` made it possible to make immersion the frontend and spaced repetition the backend of a single system. While living in Taiwan during Summer 2023 I had the chance to formalize this on technical and cognitive-scientific grounds. The implementation is dutifully[^1] dubbed `PartnerGPT`. [Check it out!](https://github.com/JacobH140/PartnerGPT) ![[gif?.gif|200]]